On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 09:11, Martijn van Duren wrote: > To prevent producing clutter by multiple processes/threads writing to > the same socket at the same time, due to race conditions, I was thinking > about using semaphores, but I saw that named semaphores aren't > supported. > > When looking through the source I noticed that there's hardly any > semaphore use inside the OpenBSD code. So I was wondering what the > preferred way of handling this kind of issues is on OpenBSD.
Some combination of pthread_mutex_lock, pthread_cond_wait, or sem_wait is probably what you want for threaded apps. If it's multi process, there's always sysv semaphores, see semop and semctl.
